Is heaven real?

Question

opinions are welcome

Answer 1

Yes and no. Heaven is real but it is not a place. The description of heaven is a metaphor for a state of mind where you learn to love God and love others as yourself. It is a state of mind where borders between people dissolve, you can view all people as equals with yourself and equals before God.

Answer 2

Heaven is indeed a real place. The Bible tells us that Heaven is God’s throne (Isaiah 66:1, Acts 7:48-49, Matthew 5:34-35). After Jesus’ resurrection and appearance on earth to His disciples “He was taken up into heaven and sat at the right hand of God” (Mark 16:19, Acts 7:55-56). “Christ did not enter a man made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; He entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence,“ (Hebrews 9:24). Jesus not only went before us, entering on our behalf, but is alive and has a present ministry in heaven, serving as our high priest in the true tabernacle made by God (Hebrews 6:19-20, 8:1-2).

The tabernacle that Moses set up on this earth was a copy of the one the Lord pitched in heaven (Hebrews 8:2, 5; 9:11). God gave Moses specific instructions as to how the tabernacle was to be built and all the furnishings contained within and said it was to be made exactly according to the pattern he had been shown (Exodus 25:9, 40, Acts 7:44). The purpose of the earthly tabernacle was that God would have a dwelling place among the Israelites here on earth, during the Old Testament times (Exodus 25:8). God appeared to them as a cloud by day and fire by night, guiding them in the direction they were to go (Exodus 13:21-22, 33:9-10, Numbers 9:15-23). Today we have no need for that pattern of the tabernacle as Jesus is the fulfillment of the new covenant and daily serves on our behalf (1 Corinthians 11:25, Hebrews 9:15). As a result, God dwells today in the heart of every believer through His Holy Spirit (Ephesians 2:22).

We are also told by Jesus Himself that there are many rooms in God’s house and that he Has gone before us to prepare a place for us. We have the assurance of His word that he will one day come back to earth and take us to where He is in heaven (John 14:1-4). Our belief in an eternal home in Heaven is based on an explicit promise of Jesus. Heaven is most definitely a real place. Heaven truly does exist.

Answer 3

Heaven is an actual place, in an actual location, designed by God with people in mind.

Beings have traveled to and from heaven, including Christ (John 1:32; 6:33; Acts 1:2), angels (Matt. 28:2; Rev. 10:1), and humans (2 Cor. 12:2; Rev. 11:12).

Jesus, speaking as the bridegroom to his beloved bride, said to us, "I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am you may be also." Heaven is that place.

The New Earth, where the heavenly city will be brought down to and relocated, will be a vastly improved form of the present earth and will have much in common with it—light, water, trees and fruit (Rev. 21:1-2), people and animals (Rev. 6:2-8; 19:11). The New Heavens and Earth is actually the eternal state, whereas the heaven we go to when we die is the intermediate state. So it is the New Heavens and Earth where we will live forever as resurrected children of God. It's important to remember this, since people often think as if the heaven we go when we die is exactly where we'll live forever. It isn't. The return of Christ and the resurrection of believers is followed by the resurrection of the heavens and earth. That's where we will live forever, as physical-spiritual beings in a physical-spiritual universe.

As a new car is a better version of an old car—but with the same essential components that make a car a car (four wheels, engine, transmission, steering wheel, etc.)—the New Earth will be a far better version of the old earth, with the same essential components. Heaven will exist in the realm of the New Earth and will therefore be very earthly in its properties. Since it is not only the dwelling place of God, but is fashioned by God to be populated by people, the present heaven is also people-friendly, designed with their God-given desires in mind. (No child can get excited about a heaven that isn't physical.)

Answer 4

IT IS REAL. WHY?

No one has yet seen it, nor the hell, because the world does not end yet. And the world will end, as anything became worn out, and humans die, so the world that we're living now. There is nothing immortal,except one, all will destruct in time.

I tell u this. In this world now, the good and bad things mix together, but like water and oil cannot mix, someday, these two contrasting elements will separate from each other.
All the Good, Peace, Pleasure, Happiness will be found in Heaven, while The Bad, Evil, Awful, Pain are in Hell.

Doesn't what i tell u make sense?

Answer 5

Yes it is! And so is hell.

Revelation 22:1-8
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Answer 6

I believe that heaven is real and that we all have our different types of heaven where we can do what every we please. God made heaven a place where you go after you die so if you think about it we may be in heaven now and when a person dies here the just go to earth, reborn as another baby, or they stay and go to "After Heaven" which is a place after heaven.

Answer 7

Yes.
Look at Planet Earth.
Planet Heaven is just like it (almost!).
Earth is a copy of Planet Heaven, but it got Messed Up.
Ditto.

Answer 8

Yes heaven and hell are real if you have faith on Allah the only one God and believe in holy books and prophets as messengers of Allah and also on life after death.

Answer 9

Real and Actual are different. Do I think Heaven is a tangible, physical existance - no. Do I think it's a spiritual realm - yes.

Answer 10

FRANKNESS ANSWER "YES!"

A. THE FIRST HEAVEN
----1. Job 35:10, 11 says that God makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven.
----2. According to Jeremiah 4:25, there would come a time in Israel when man and all the birds of the heavens would flee.
----3. Lamentations 4:19 talks about persecutors being swifter than the eagles of the heaven.
----4. 1 Kings 18:45 says, "the heaven was black with clouds and wind."
----5. According to Psalm 147:8, God covers the heaven with clouds.
----6. Daniel had vision of the Son of man coming with the clouds of heaven. (Daniel 7:13)
----7. Jesus agreed fully with Daniel when He said in Matthew 24:30, "they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."
----8. Isaiah 55:10 says that "the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven."
----9. God does good by giving us "rain from heaven," according to Acts 14:17.
----10. Genesis 27:39 refers to "the dew of heaven from above."

Note: Not only are the birds said to "fly in heaven," but also that clouds, snow, rain, and dew are in, and come from heaven.

So according to these Scriptures, we take it that the FIRST HEAVEN refers to the ATMOSPHERE around the earth. It is in this area where the birds fly, and the clouds are found.

B. THE SECOND HEAVEN.
----1. On the fourth day, "God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven." (Genesis 1:14)
----2. Verse 16 tells us what these lights were:
--------a. the greater light to rule the day (this refers to the sun).
--------b. the lesses light to rule the night (this refers to the moon.)
--------c. the stars (which also shine at night).
----3. Deuteronomy 1:10 uses the Stars of heaven to be an example of a very large number.
----4. When Joshua was fighting a battle, God caused the sun to stand still in the midst (middle) of heaven. (Joshua 10:13).
----5. According to Deuteronomy 4:19, the sun, moon, and stars make up "the host of heaven."
----6. II Kings 23:5 adds one more thing to "the host of heaven" by referring to "the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven."

Note: These verse have told us that the sun, moon, stars, and planets are in heaven.

So we take it that SECOND HEAVEN refers to the realm of the sun, moon, stars, and planets. We usually refer to this area today as SPACE or OUTER SPACE.

C. THE THIRD HEAVEN.
----1. II Corinthians 12:2-4, we find that Apostle Paul gave a name to the third heaven. In verse 2, he says he is "caught up to the third heaven," and in verse 4 he says he was "caught up into paradise."
----2. According to Luke 23:39-43, the repentant thief on the cross would be with Jesus in paradise that very day.
----3. Not only the thief on the cross was given that promise, but so is every SAVED PERSON TODAY, because II Corinthians 5:8 says, "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
----4. Hebrews 9:24 says that Christ is entered into "heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us."
----5. According to Psalm 11:4, "the Lord's throne is in heaven."
----6. Solomon was asking God to hear prayer "in heaven thy dwelling place." (I Kings 8:30)
----7. In II Chronicles 7:14, God said that if His people would humble themselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from their wicked ways, then he would "hear from Heaven," and would answer their prayers.

Note: These verses tell us that the THIRD HEAVEN is the DWELLING PLACE OF GOD, and that is called paradise. This is where God's throne is; where JESUS is now; and where SAVED PEOPLE who have passed away are presently residing.
Man does not really have a special term to designate the THIRD HEAVEN, for it is higher than the stars and plants. It is normally just called HEAVEN, because it is beyond man's realm of observation. Psalm 103:11 refers to this when it says, "the heaven is high above the earth." To distinguish the THIRD HEAVEN from the others, the Bible sometimes calls it "the heaven and heaven of heavens," as in I Kings 8:27. In other words, it is "the heaven above all others."

So paradise is the THIRD HEAVEN, and that is where JESUS and the thief on the cross were going that very day - the moment they died. The same promise is GIVEN TO CHRISTIANS TODAY.